What role did Sorghaghtani Beki play?Please use these links to answer http://www.mongolia-attractions.com/ancient-mongol-women.html...

According to the link (the mongolia-attractions one) that
I have attached below, this woman was the daughter in law of Genghis Khan and the mother
of Kublai Khan.  She played a very important role in preparing her sons for the
leadership roles that she expected them to take on in the Mongol
Empire.

Sorghagtani Beki believed that her sons were going
to be ruling a large empire.  Because she thought this, she wanted to make sure that
they would be competent to be rulers.  To help them become competent, she made sure, for
example, that they became well educated even though she herself was illiterate.  She
also made sure that they were trained in specific ways or to have specific attitudes
that would help them later in life.

So, overall, her role
was to really guide her sons and to prepare them to be powerful men in the Mongol
Empire.

I need a summary of Icarus Again by Alan Devenish.

The poem "Icarus Again" opens during what seems like a school
science experiment on flight. The recognition of the mythology character Icarus is
needed.

Icarus, needing to escape from Crete, uses wings his
craftsman father, Daedalus, created for him. Daedalus warns Icarus not to fly to close to the sun
for the fact the sun will burn the feathers and melt the wax from which the wings were
constructed.

Icarus, ignoring the warnings of his father, decides
that he loves the feeling of flying and soars close to the sun. Just as his father warned, the
wax on the wings melts and Icarus plummets to his death.

As for the
reference to Icarus in Devenish's poem, the mythological man is referenced as being reanimated in
the structures created by the children. Much like the man Icarus, the creations are seen
"exploding over and over again."

In the end, the speaker feels sorry
for the children. With happiness in their hearts they had thrown their creations off of the cliff
only to watch them crash to the earth. The "pure Icarian sky suddenly emptied of their child."
Love and faith is simply not enough: constantly "the light heart [is] pulling us
down."

Definite integral of x^2/sqrt(x^3+1), between 2 and 3, gives=?

We'll apply Leibniz-Newton formula to evaluate the definite
integral:

Int f(x)dx = F(b) - F(a), where a and b are the limits of
integration.

First, we'll determine the indefinite integral. We'll
change the variable as method of solving the integral.

Int
x^2dx/sqrt(x^3 + 1)

We notice that if we'll put x^3 + 1 = t and
we'll differentiate, we'll get the numerator.

3x^2dx =
dt

x^2dx = dt/3

We'll re-write the
integral:

Int x^2dx/sqrt(x^3 + 1) = Int (dt/3)/sqrt
t

Int (dt/3)/sqrt t = (1/3)*Int dt/sqrt
t

(1/3)*Int dt/sqrt t = (1/3)*[t^(-1/2 + 1)/(-1/2 + 1)] +
C

(1/3)*Int dt/sqrt t = (2/3)*sqrt t +
C

Int f(x)dx = (2/3)*sqrt (x^3 + 1) +
C

We'll evaluate the definite integral, having as limits of
integration x = 2 and x = 3:

Int f(x)dx = (2/3)*sqrt (3^3 + 1) -
(2/3)*sqrt (2^3 + 1)

Int f(x)dx = (2/3)*(sqrt28 -
3)

Int f(x)dx = (2*sqrt28)/3 -
2

The definite integral of the function f(x) =
x^2/sqrt(x^3 + 1), is Int f(x)dx = (2*sqrt28)/3 - 2.

According to Goldstein, who are the new aristocracy?

According to Goldstein, the rise of totalitarian states
like Ingsoc brought with it the rise of a new kind of aristocracy.  This was an
aristocracy that was focused mainly on getting power for itself.  It was focused on
using the power of the state for (more than any other goal) crushing any
opposition.

According to Goldstein, this new aristocracy
was made up of people who could either run the government or influence it.  It was made
up of people like technicians (who could run stuff) or union organizers (who knew how to
influence government) or publicity experts (who knew how to put out propaganda).  All of
these were types of people who could build a new and totalitarian system of government
that would dominate the new states.

Here is a quote that
illustrates this idea:

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The new aristocracy was made up for the most
part of bureaucrats, scientists, technicians, trade-union organizers, publicity experts,
sociologists, teachers, journalists, and professional politicians. These people, whose
origins lay in the salaried middle class and the upper grades of the working class, had
been shaped and brought together by the barren world of monopoly industry and
centralized government. As compared with their opposite numbers in past ages, they were
less avaricious, less tempted by luxury, hungrier for pure power, and, above all, more
conscious of what they were doing and more intent on crushing
opposition.

In what genre does The Canterbury Tales fall?

Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Talesis
recognized as the first book of poetry written in the English language. A composer of French
poetry as well, Chaucer incorporates in his tales many of the techniques of this genre. There
are, however, two tales that are written in prose: "The Tale of Melibee" and "The Parson's Tale."
Within this broad genre of poetry, Chaucer's work falls into the categories of narrative,
satiric, romantic, and fabliau, a short metrical tale of French poetry which is usually a rough
(bawdy) and humorous narrative. Examples of fabliaux are "The Miller's Tale" and "The Reeve's
Tales."

The narrator of Chaucer's poetry is anonymous and should not
be mistaken as the voice of the poet. By using his naive voice of the anonymous narrator, Chaucer
is able in is intricate tableaux of medieval life to incorporate a wide range of attitudes. The
Canterbury tales in, without question, Geoffrey Chaucer's magnum opus.

Can you annotate the poem: "No Time Like the Old Time" by Oliver Wendell Holmes?There is no time like the old time, when you and I were young, When...

To annotate a text is the
same thing as glossing a text. To
gloss (annotate) a text means to write a detailed
commentary of a text. A commentary of this sort will be somewhat different from a
critical analysis although some of the same topics may be
covered.

Holmes opens his cheerful and light-hearted poem
by modifying the expression "old times," meaning times of life gone by, to match and
parallel another expression, "the old friend," which appears later on in the poem. So
the focus of the poem is on the parallel ideas of "the old time" and "the old
friend."

Holmes then employs a poetic convention by
speaking of "the buds of April" blossoming, which symbolizes the spring time of life, or
youth, while literally representing "the old time" that Holmes is focusing on. A second
poetic convention of "birds of spring-time" singing symbolizes the happiness of youth
and  also represents "the old time." It is probable that "gardens brightest glories / by
summer suns" nursed is another convention that symbolizes growing to maturity in a
garden of life and friendship while also again representing "the old time" in the
literal garden from his recollection.

Holmes now leaves the
garden and switches to the other half of the parallel focus, "the old friend." The
phrase "morning days" operates the same as the phrases above: it symbolizes days of
youth while representing literal mornings, probably spent in the garden of the first
part of the poem. Holmes again switches and begins a long metaphor comparing friendship
to fame. He says a friend's "welcome" and "homage" have no
equal.

A colon follows "like his praise." The colon
indicates that what comes after explains or expands upon what comes before the colon. In
other words, because of the colon, we know that the last lines are the continuation of
Holmes' thoughts about friends and not a new topic
altogether.

The last five lines might be paraphrased like
this: There is no homage (honor) like a friend's praise: This is because fame is like a
scentless sunflower with no real sweet charm of its own and only the appearance of gold
in its circlet of petals; but friendship is the real flower in the metaphoric garden of
life--it is the sweet-scented rose that has fragrance in every petal. Holmes uses
similes to compare fame to "the scentless sunflower" and friendship to "the breathing
rose," while "breathing" also implies life-force and represents a personification of the
rose.

What actions did the U.S. take before going to war with the Axis Powers?

I assume that you are asking about actions that were not exactly
neutral but which fell short of actual acts of war. If so, the major things that the US did
included:

• The destroyers for bases deal that FDR made
  with Britain. This gave Britain ships and it freed up British forces (from the bases) to go and
  fight.


• Lend-Lease. While still maintaining neutrality, the US sent
  huge amounts of war materiel to the British and the
  Soviets.


• Having the US Navy protect convoys of ships (both
  American and British) going from the US to Britain.

All
of these actions were clearly intended to help the Allies win the war even though the US was
still officially a neutral power.